We Are Chaos

====Side B====

====Side B====

The title of the sixth song on the album, “Infinite Darkness”, is also the title of the self-portrait featured on the album cover.<ref name=”Revolver2″/> After Manson created the painting, he and Jennings began work on the similarly-titled song, with the vocalist saying this was the point when the album “really developed into something”.<ref name=”Forbes”/> ”[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]” said it was the sole track on ”We Are Chaos” that could be described as [[Industrial music|industrial]] [[Gothic rock|goth]], which they said was the genre that Manson “built his empire on.”<ref name=”ClassicRock”>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/classic-rock/20200915/282595970322009|title=Rock {{!}} Marilyn Manson {{!}} We Are Chaos|magazine=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]|page=86|date=October 2020|access-date=May 25, 2021|location=London, United Kingdom|issn=1464-7834|via=[[PressReader]]|archive-date=April 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410015727/https://www.pressreader.com/uk/classic-rock/20200915/282595970322009|url-status=live}}</ref> AllMusic said the song contained “suitably buzzing riffs, cacophonous percussion, and a feral vocal performance”, and that both it and preceding track “Perfume” were two of the record’s most “classic-sounding moments.”<ref name=”AllMusic”/> Other reviewers noted the two songs contained apparent lyrical references to the [[Me Too movement]]. ”[[NME]]” highlighted the “Infinite Darkness” lyric “Just ’cause you’re famous doesn’t mean you’re worth anything/ In this world or the next one or the one before”,<ref name=”NMEreview”/> while ”[[The Independent]]” said “Perfume” saw him hammering the “21st-century cult of celebrity victimhood” with the lyric “‘Cause victim is [[chic]]/ You’re as famous as your pain”.<ref name=”Independent”/>

The title of the sixth song on the album, “Infinite Darkness”, is also the title of the self-portrait featured on the album cover.<ref name=”Revolver2″/> After Manson created the painting, he and Jennings began work on the similarly-titled song, with the vocalist saying this was the point when the album “really developed into something”.<ref name=”Forbes”/> ”[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]” said it was the sole track on ”We Are Chaos” that could be described as [[Industrial music|industrial]] [[Gothic rock|goth]], which they said was the genre that Manson “built his empire on.”<ref name=”ClassicRock”>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/classic-rock/20200915/282595970322009|title=Rock {{!}} Marilyn Manson {{!}} We Are Chaos|magazine=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]|page=86|date=October 2020|access-date=May 25, 2021|location=London, United Kingdom|issn=1464-7834|via=[[PressReader]]|archive-date=April 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410015727/https://www.pressreader.com/uk/classic-rock/20200915/282595970322009|url-status=live}}</ref> AllMusic said the song contained “suitably buzzing riffs, cacophonous percussion, and a feral vocal performance”, and that both it and the following track “Perfume” were two of the record’s most “classic-sounding moments.”<ref name=”AllMusic”/> Other reviewers noted the two songs contained apparent lyrical references to the [[Me Too movement]]. ”[[NME]]” highlighted the “Infinite Darkness” lyric “Just ’cause you’re famous doesn’t mean you’re worth anything/ In this world or the next one or the one before”,<ref name=”NMEreview”/> while ”[[The Independent]]” said “Perfume” saw him hammering the “21st-century cult of celebrity victimhood” with the lyric “‘Cause victim is [[chic]]/ You’re as famous as your pain”.<ref name=”Independent”/>

The main riff on “Keep My Head Together” was recorded using the acoustic Gibson Hummingbird guitar. Jennings explained the acoustic guitar was recorded via an [[AKG (company)|AKG 451]] microphone connected to a Super Champ amplifier, and that the guitar was “right on” the microphone, “really close, and I was playing it really, really quiet, so quiet and so [[Dynamic range compression|compressed]] that it became really big, so it sounds like an electric that you can’t really identify but it’s really the Hummingbird that’s been mic’d closely and put through an amp and played extremely quietly.”<ref name=”Guitar”/> AllMusic compared the guitars on the track to the Smiths’s “[[How Soon Is Now]]”.<ref name=”AllMusic”/> The track features guitar [[overdubbing]] performed by John Sheffler, who performed electric guitar overdubs as well as [[pedal steel guitar]] on several tracks on the album.<ref name=”Guitar”/>

The main riff on “Keep My Head Together” was recorded using the acoustic Gibson Hummingbird guitar. Jennings explained the acoustic guitar was recorded via an [[AKG (company)|AKG 451]] microphone connected to a Super Champ amplifier, and that the guitar was “right on” the microphone, “really close, and I was playing it really, really quiet, so quiet and so [[Dynamic range compression|compressed]] that it became really big, so it sounds like an electric that you can’t really identify but it’s really the Hummingbird that’s been mic’d closely and put through an amp and played extremely quietly.”<ref name=”Guitar”/> AllMusic compared the guitars on the track to the Smiths’s “[[How Soon Is Now]]”.<ref name=”AllMusic”/> The track features guitar [[overdubbing]] performed by John Sheffler, who performed electric guitar overdubs as well as [[pedal steel guitar]] on several tracks on the album.<ref name=”Guitar”/>